Food Chains Lesson

1. Define the term Food Chain.

2. Distinguish between the three types of consumers

3. Construct a food chain

A food chain is a series of eating interactions between organisms.
All food chains must begin with a producer also called an autotroph.
Arrows indicate who eats who and the flow of energy. Energy decreases along the food chain.

A consumer is an organism that get its energy from eating other organisms.
There are Three (3) type of consumers:
1. Herbivores - animals that eat only plants.
2. Omnivores - animals that eat both plants and animals.
3. Carnivores - animals that eat only meat (other animals)

examples are:
Mushrooms, insects, worms and bacteria

are organisms that break down organisms to release nutrients back to the soil.

​Decomposers

How they all fit into the food chain?

​Trophic levels in a food chain

• Use these organisms below to construct a food chain.

• shark

• algae

• queen conch

• turtle

​See you next class!